Senior Engineering Manager, Forwarding Platform

Build the first modern logistics platform

The opportunity

Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP.  We are the first licensed freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around a modern tech stack.  We help the world's fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving products between any two places on the planet.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will develop products that are at the forefront of reshaping the entire logistics & supply chain industries. The Senior Engineering Manager will work alongside other engineering leaders and self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficiencies in the complex global trade industry. 

This role requires an engineering background to reshape the freight forwarding industry. Manage a software engineering team, engineering managers, and own architecture design decisions. Mentor and train other team members on tech strategy, roadmaps, architecture, design techniques, and coding standards. Work with business users and product managers to prioritize product and technical backlogs. Build and deliver a highly efficient system to increase operational capacity.  Have indirect influence beyond functional boundaries, such as with product management on technical feasibility and roadmap, or with test engineering on tooling and execution needs. 

About the team

We have multiple teams in the US, located between Bellevue and San Francisco, dedicated to building and maintaining foundational Forwarding systems that support various other systems across the company. These teams are currently undergoing major overhauls and upgrades aimed at significantly elevating the quality and reliability of our systems. We are seeking a senior engineering manager who is passionate about learning, collaboration, and building solutions that have a global impact

You will

• Collaborate with other engineering and cross-functional leaders to define the roadmap for the team
• Provide guidance to the Operations product management team and influence product roadmaps
• Identify and drive cross-functional technical efforts across teams. Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for technically oriented projects across multiple teams. 
• Manage a software engineering team, including managers, and own architecture design decisions. Decide how to refactor the existing monolithic system to a service-oriented architecture or microservices. 
• Coach team members and invest in their career growth and success
• Build and deliver a highly efficient system to increase operational capacity. Actively partner with product, design, and peers. 
• Drive a culture of operational excellence across the engineering organization

You should have

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 6 or more
• 10+ years of professional experience in a Software Development Role
• Passion of building intuitive, high-quality developers tooling, Steaming and APIs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experiences in the logistics field
• Demonstrated drive to constantly learn new technologies; have knowledge of the broad technical landscape in Enterprise Software systems and cloud systems (e.g. AWS)
• Ability to set technical vision for large scale projects that involve coordination among teams spanning multiple VP orgs
• Ability to coordinate internal technical work with outside partnership/external deadlines
• Experience in a fast-paced work environment & a bias for action. You ship quality code quickly

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